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the place where your eyes finally stop hitting walls and start measuring forever.
means A wide, open, and continuous stretch of something — sky, sea, land — spread out without interruption.
from From the Latin 'expandere,' to spread out, built from 'ex-' (out) and 'pandere' (to spread or stretch), the same root that gives us 'expand.' The noun arrived into English in the 1600s, the word itself opening up just as it describes.
- word root
- From Latin expandere, meaning to spread out flat
- ocean scale
- Pacific covers more area than all land combined
- sci-fi fame
- Lent its name to a hard-physics space saga
- sky illusion
- The visible horizon sits only three miles away
- empty truth
- Most of the universe is vacant expanse between atoms
for instance
the expanse tv series — sci-fi show that ran 6 seasons from 2015-2022 on syfy and amazon
the great plains — vast grassland expanse covering 1.3 million square miles across central north america
siberian taiga — world's largest forest expanse at 5 million square kilometers across russia